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"BLESSED
IS THE ONE WHOSE STRENGTH IS IN THEE
WHOSE HEART IS SET ON PILGRIMAGE"
PSALM 84
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A pilgrimage to the
Holy Land is a journey of the
heart. It’s a walk in the Land of the Bible that holds the
roots of your faith. It’s a celebration of the
spirit in thanksgiving, prayer, song, and fellowship,
with sacred rites such as baptism, communion, a reading
of the Beatitudes, a sail on the stormy sea. It’s
a life-changing experience and guaranteed to impact
forever how you “see” the Bible, hear the stories
and “walk the talk.”
Anticipating a pilgrimage to
the Holy Land? Bible
References will help you locate major stories
pertinent to the sites you’ll be visiting. After
returning from the Holy Land, having studied Scripture
“on location,” you will be reading the Bible in
three-dimensional color,
rather than in black and white. |
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Interested in creative ways of visiting
well-known sites, as well as those lesser-known
off-the-beaten pathways? Then look at the most
consistently popular classics from my collection of "Holy
sites: Gila's Highlights" written from 2005
to 2020. Read my highlights on Absalom, Adullam,
Arbel, Armageddon, Azekah, or fifty-seven more, all the
way to the elusive Ziklag, one of David's hideaways.
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Join me as the archeologists find new interpretations to
old puzzles such as the location of the
Pool of
Siloam, the identity of the
balm of Gilead
and whether the
ivory pomegranate was ever
present in Solomon’s temple. |
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For “Let’s see where the
Priestly
Benediction was found”, I interviewed the
late Gabi Barkay about his discovery of two silver
amulets engraved with the oldest biblical text ever
found. Come with me as I visit
Herod’s tomb at Herodion with the late
archeologist Ehud Netzer. I am on tour with the
late Adam Zertal as he leads us to what he claims is the
site of Joshua’s altar on
Mount Ebal. |
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Like to read profiles of notorious celebrities or
biographies of alpha achievers? Holy Land
Headliners
profiles personalities who have left their mark on the
Holy Land, including a femme fatale eyeing Jericho, a
bishop lost in the Wilderness of the Temptation, a
Connecticut Yankee who audaciously tackles Biblical
geography and a headless knighted archeologist buried on
Mount Zion. |
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Eager to know more about female characters of the Bible?
Heroines
fleshes out
profiles of Mary Magdalena, Bathsheba, Elizabeth,
Jezebel, Abishag, the Witch of En Dor and Veronica (who
is actually not biblical!). |
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Try the Top Twelve
popular articles this month for a flavor of
what my website has to offer. Scroll down for the
latest articles and updates posted since 2025. |
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Tips for Tours
gives you fun and practical ideas culled from
collaboration with hundreds of ministers, priests,
rabbis, teachers, professors, and facilitators I have
team-guided with over the years. If you plan to
explore Jerusalem on your own, you may want to order my
singular “Explore
Jerusalem’s Soul”. Definitely download
or print out my free guide to the
gates of the Old
City. |
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COMING TO
JERUSALEM?
BOOK GILA for a customized private tour |
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Ask Gila answers queries about
holy land snakes,
spiders, flash floods, and camel riding.
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About Gila
is an interview with yours truly, answering questions
asked, time and again, usually on that first drive from
the Ben-Gurion Airport. |
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You may want to check out my memoir in progress,
tentatively titled “Holy Land Haunts: Gila’s Guiding
Misadventures over four decades, soon to be five (!!).”
It will eventually include a chapter about a
fire-bombing on the Mount of Olives, a shooting outside
the Pool of Bethesda, an escape from Samaria in the
early 1980s, broken bones and shiners (there were quite
a few!) and an unexpected tour leader gift of an
”electric can-opener” after a fall at Masada. Stay
tuned. |
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Send your comments, questions, bookings, poems or
anecdotes to
gila@itsgila.com. I love to receive
unconventional or challenging queries. |
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About
Gila is an interview with yours truly, answering
questions asked, time and again, usually on that first
drive from the Ben-Gurion Airport.
Have fun
exploring these Holy Land resources and
contact me if you’d like to
book me as your holy land guide. |
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Have YOU been there, done that? |
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Mount of Olives |
David versus Goliath |
Old City ramparts |
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Temple Mount tour with Gila |
Cleopatra & Caesarea |
David's sling? |
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